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We would like to present you our annual report for July 2021 until June 2022.

Ellyanne Wanjiku visited Zimbabwe in December and early January to create EndPlasticSoup awareness at schools, in a church and meeting government officials. Ellyanne visited Harare Gardens Park. Plastic shopping bags are still used here. Plastic pollution is a big deal…

We wish you a healthy, happy and environment friendly 2023! With lots of inspiration and sharing all our good ideas and experiences to raise awareness, take actions,and align with others to reduce our plastic footprint.

Rotary Club Oldenburg-Ammerland (D1850, Germany) organized a great RYLA seminar in November. It was entitled “Sustainable Development Goals – the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations”. The 27 participants aged 16 to 28 experienced a packed seminar…

EndPlasticSoup presented the initiative at the European Rotary Institute in Basel 4-6 November Rotary Institute Basel Gert-Jan van Dommelen (co-founder and project director) and Marja Ritterfeld (board member and chair EndPlasticSoup Germany) informed the attendees of the Rotary Institute in…

Rotary Club Brühl awarded our young ambassadors of Bye Bye Plastic Bags with 11,000 euro. The gift will be used for education booklets, educational training sessions, creation of teacher training and education content, and development of another educational booklet for…

Rotaract Scheveningen and Rotaract Dubai organized an EndPlasticSoup cleanup with 65 clubs in 16 countries.

How do microplastics affect food safety? Dr. Huerta Lwanga discusses the issue of plastic use in agriculture (fertilizer, compost, mulch, sludge etc.). Microplastics in soil affect soil life and crop growth; these plastic particles can additionally migrate through the soil…

In November 2022 our alliance Research institute TNO in The Netherlands published a new report on Microplastics.

EndPlasticSoup at the K-Fair (Plastic) 2022 in Düsseldorf Results of a visit to the K-Fair with respect to chemical recycling. K is the most important trade fair in the world for the plastics industry. Within the context of the initiative…

Rotaract Clubs of the United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Jumeirah, and Dubai Cosmopolitan) joined forces with Liter of Light on October 2nd, 2022, to build solar lights that will be incorporated into solar art installations that shall be displayed during the…

The Rotaract Club of Dubai and Rotary Club of Dubai planned clean-up activities on Saturday, September 17th 2022, as part of “World Clean Up Day”, under the campaign “End the Litter Trail” with the aim to tackle and raise awareness…

Geofrey Arinaitwe EndPlasticSoup ambassador in Uganda invites you to Lambu fishing site clean up project beginning on the world cleanup day on Saturday 17th September 2022. World cleanup day project 2022 : Lambu fishing site clean up project Background of…

Environmental Committee challenges clubs to ‘clean up’ their communities in September

On June 4, Rotary members were at the Floriade Expo 2022 in Almere (Netherlands) for the Stop Plastic Waste Event. This event was organized by the Rotary Clubs Almere, Almere-Weerwater, Almere-New Town, Zeewolde and Huizen Gooimeer in collaboration with Rotary…

From 4-8 June the Rotary International Convention takes place in Houston. The theme is ‘Discover New Horizons’. The EndPlasticSoup/ESRAG booth is in #720 in the House of Friendship, supported by ESRAG (booth #722). In this booth you can make your…

4 Girls, 3 continents, 1 mission: movie ‘Girls for Future’ Our own Young Ambassador Nina features in the movie ‘Girls For Future’ that has been released in English, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish and German. This documentary is now available for EndPlasticSoup…

In this online meeting the EndPlasticSoup Young Ambassadors will present their actions & projects to stop the plastic pollution.

Tijdens het Rotary Festival in Maarssen op 15 mei was er volop aandacht voor het verbeteren van de Plastic life cycle: reduce, reuse & recycle.

There are still puzzles for sale from the EndPlasticSoup Summercamp edition. This second puzzle of Rotary Club Winschoten (The Netherlands) was made in collaboration with Rotary Club Leer (Germany): a real summer puzzle with all kinds of activities around the…

French is added as 5th language to our website next to English, Dutch, German and Spanish. English is the primary language for EndPlasticSoup and therefore high frequency articles will only be available in English. These can be accessed via the…

EndPlasticSoup was present at the Presidential conference ‘Economy and Environment in Harmony’ in Venice 18-20 March 2022, our Ambassador Club RC Bruxelles Amitié, Susanne Kraatz met with Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta, She proudly showed our flag, and the flyer…

The OECD presented The Global Plastics Outlook: Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options. The Global Plastics Outlook gives an overview of the challenges ahead and potential solutions.

EndPlasticSoup was represented at the District 1090 Thames Valley Conference 2022 in Oxford, England. Presentation EndPlasticSoup Gert-Jan van Dommelen board member of EPS was one of the guest speakers during the afternoon program on 19 March. In his presentation, he…

To inspire our Interactors, we organize an international Zoom conference for Interact (ages 12-18). We have set May 21th, 2022 starting at 13:30 GMT (1.30 pm GMT). Program and Zoom link Our Young Ambassadors will introduce themselves and report on…

We are so happy that the United Nations agreed on a Plastic Pollution Treaty at the 1st of March 2022. The United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi agreed to end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by…

At 1st March 2022 the kickoff of the international Advisory Board for EndPlasticSoup took place. In two meetings we discussed several topics regarding latest developments to reduce plastic pollution, how to increase cooperation and how to grow our initiative: The…

EndPlasticSoup installs an international Advisory Board to keep us up to date on the latest developments to reduce plastic pollution, and give us advice how to increase impact, expand cooperation, and choose priorities to grow the EndPlasticSoup initiative.

On 15th February the Rotary Clubs of Mijas International and Marbella-Guadalmina, Mijas Town Hall, and Association Mi Moana, proudly unveiled a large fish sculpture on the beach, designed to collect plastic bottles. The unveiling was performed by Concejalia Arancha Lopez…

“We need a full cycle legally binding plastic-treaty Now!” View the video of our Young Ambassador Nina, Aeshnina Azzahra Aqilani from Indonesia.

We would like to draw your attention to a press release from the Ellen McArthur Foundation.

Please have a look at our Annual Report.

Dear Rotarians and supporters of EndPlasticSoup, We wish you a healthy, happy and environment friendly 2022! With lots of inspiration and sharing of all our good ideas to raise awareness, take actions, align with others to reduce our plastic footprint, support…

Rotaract MDIO’s (Multi-District Information Organizations) in Europe, Mediterranean and Oceania, jointly with EndPlasticSoup organized the webinar ‘Pollution’ on 27th November 2021. Webinar about Pollution Supported and joined by EndPlasticSoup, Rotaract organizations in Europe, Mediterranean and Oceania have once again started…

The Manilla Presidential Conference from 26-28 November, Rotary’s largest Asia-Pacific Conference was a great success with 18,000 participants. Worldwide this was the largest convention after the Rotary International Convention (Houston 4-8 June 2022). The focus was on: ‘Growing local economies’…

EndPlasticSoup was present at the 2nd Plastic Health Summit, 21st October 2021. Scientists from all over the world presented the results of two years of research on the impact of plastic pollution on our health. Lawyers, politicians and entrepreneurs presented…

Plastic art made by Artist and Rotarian Hugo Soto and RYLA Participants in Mallorca At the first Spanish-German RYLA seminar on Mallorca, 15 schoolchildren got involved in cleaning polluted beaches. The young people were accompanied by Marja Ritterfeld, ex-governor of…

EndplasticSoup organized the online Synergy Europe seminar on 11th September with great presentations of Expert speakers and a panel discussion about the importance of a balance between Planet, People, Profit and Peace. The seminar has been chaired by Moderator Annika…

After the deluge on July 14, which also flooded our members’ basements and business premises, we wanted to help clear the trash along our local streams. Two babbling brooks, Caumerbeek and Geleenbeek, originate in the Heerlen area, which were transformed…

Registration will close on November 2nd!

Thank you for visiting our Booth at the Rotary Virtual Convention 2021. All content in our Booth will be available on-demand until 10 June 2022 for you to enjoy. Use the login you have received after registration. The Rotary Convention…